Rant Help with soldering to fix laptop PSU (the ac adapter, not the laptop, £ Reward)

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  1. bigc90210

    bigc90210 Teh C

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    Hi all.

    As in my sig, I have a Asus ROG gaming laptop, and im looking to sell it soon. I stood on and broke the AC adapter cable end (the end that goes into the laptop) so that in that internally the wires must be broken/loose, so the laptop switches between battery/ac charge when you wiggle the AC wire when its plugged in.

    I know the normal solution would be to just buy an AC adapter, of which ive bought 2. Both have been "compatible" but haven't been proper model for model replacements (despite saying so in the ebay listings) but have been general Asus laptop chargers instead.

    I've been using a Universal AC adapter but its a bit crap TBH. it works in terms of powering the laptop, but has terrible coil whine with the draw the laptop is taking from it, and is irritating when in use.

    I'm notoriously crap at soldering, and was wondering if any of you guys on here could repair this for me to a decent standard so I can sell the laptop with its original (chunky, but silent) adapter.

    can provide £££ to cover a few beers to say thanks, and obv will cover postage both ways.

    will provide pic when i get in (you'll see then why generic AC adapters are no good).

    for comparison in terms of size, if any of you have an old style xbox 360, the power brick is about the same length, and about 50% thicker all round.

    C

    Edit: Should this be in hardware? sorry if it should be :/
     
    Last edited: 19 Feb 2013

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